Haunted duck blind
Trying (and failing) to be artistic.
The mystery of the little black bugs. They're alive!! Eww.
Out into the creek enjoying the sun, tho it was supposed to be in the 80s today. More like 75. Paddled out to the haunted duck blind. (Well, that's what I call it, it seems like its about to tumble in the water any day now, and it just looks downright creepy.) There are always 1 or 2 osprey on it, but no sign of a nest. Upon my return, I noticed what I thought was the ultimate end of the journey for the bugs I mentioned yesterday. The shore line was littered thick with them. But when I inspected them further, I saw that a lot of them were still alive! Eww. And even tho I has taken a close look at them yesterday and saw that they definitely had wings, these guys did not, and actually looked more like tics, with a bunch of legs. Did they metamorphosis? Were there two bug apocalypses going on? As I walked back to the house I noticed about 10 of them were somehow hitching a ride and were crawling up my leg in typical tic behavior, not that I am an expert entomologist by any means. But I was grossed out enough to flick them all off and stomped on the little mothersf**ers with my soft water shoes that they just laughed at. If I find just one of them embedded into my skin tonight, today was my last day on the water.